August! You come out from behind that Howard this minute, too!

Yeah, my roundtable contribution this time around is, shall we say, a marginal example.

Cabiria (1914), in which you never can tell which aspect of a movie is going to give rise to a major pop-culture phenomenon…

Evilution (2007), in which we see that when zombies are involved, good old-fashioned overkill might occasionally be better than the more nuanced approaches favored by modern militaries…

100 Monsters (1968), in which a singularly peculiar attempt at gentrification faces a singularly peculiar form of neighborhood activism…

The Shuttered Room (1967), in which David Greene and D. B. Ledrov appropriately treat their “collaboration” with August Derleth about the same way that Derleth treated his “collaborations” with H. P. Lovecraft…

and…

Transatlantic Tunnel (1935), in which some people apparently can’t tell when a job is more than difficult enough already.

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“The Shuttered Room” is the very first “Lovecraft” story I ever read, back when I was 8 or 9. It scared the shit out of me then, and even now I can’t think too badly of it, especially given how many other terrible Lovecraft pastiches are out there.

I’m not sure the film exists where I am, but it sounds just intriguing enough to look for it.

to accept some of the pieces (including such highly regarded tales as “At the Mountains of Madness” and “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”) that Farnsworth Wright had rejected during his long and pivotal tenure as the magazine’s chief.

It’s true that At The Mountains of Madness was rejected by Farnsworth Wright at Weird Tales… but it was published four years later in Astounding Stories, during Lovecraft’s lifetime. While Derleth was responsible for persuading Weird Tales to posthumously publish many of Lovecraft’s stories, this was not among them.

The Shadow Over Innsmouth was indeed published by Weird Tales after Lovecraft’s death (and after it had been rejected by Wright during his lifetime), but that wasn’t its first publication; it had been published as a hardback book in 1936 (albeit one with a very small print run).

I’ve watched a good amount of anime, a lot of it with various yokai. The word yokai seems to have about the same general meaning as the term fae for all kind of celtic type beasties. Yokai can be good, bad, or indifferent, and are just non-human beings with powers.

Watched Evilution this weekend. Pretty much agree with your assessment; I found it was a bit fresher and more interesting than most of the recent zom movies that have come out, mostly because of the revelations you mentioned in the last paragraph. (Well, that and Sandra Ramirez, who I found extremely easy on the eyes.) Still, it’s not something I feel a desire to see again any time soon.

You weren’t kidding about Nathan Bexton’s character, that’s for sure. I still love that description.